Category: Christianity

In the Lenten posting for day 19 I wrote about choices. I think a lot about choices. Back in August of 2005 I wrote a poem about choices. It was Ok, but something remarkable happened. Someone named George added to…

Even though God has gifted each and every one of us and expects us to use those gifts for the good of His people and His kingdom, we have a bottomless well of excuses for every failure in our lives….

I have been reading some of my earlier Lenten posts and one from March 30, 2007 caught my eye. The title is Making Memories With God. The post is about how memories make people important in our lives. There are…

This year’s Lenten observance is approaching its conclusion. I can say without reservation, this has been a Lent like no other. There are many reasons. You can cite the so-called pandemic, the world-wide lockdowns due to COVID that generated widespread…

Sometimes life looks like it is out of control and the more under the surface of things you look the more out of control it appears to be. Now some people can look at that and not realize the obvious,…

Coming up on two weeks until Easter tomorrow. My birthday follows 3 days later. Easter was last on my birthday in 2012 and won’t be again until 2091 so I think I can safely say  have seen the last Easter…

One of the hardest things I have to learn to accept as I grew in my Christian life was that in order to change from the old man I used to be to the new man I want to be,…

Interestingly enough, I read through a number of my previous Lenten journey postings and this one stood out to me – http://beyondtherim.meisheid.com/lent-06-day-20/. At its heart it is about God’s sovereignty, but it is also about a human failing we all…

One thing that the pandemic has brought to fore is how many hopeless people there are out there, who are primarily driven by their fear of dying. Up until the lockdowns started most people had kept that fear hidden away,…

I am tired. With the time change, Spring forward, I haven’t adjusted yet and am getting to sleep too late and getting up too early. Such are the minor travails of life, and believe me, this is minor. When we…